Lydia Choy

More views of this mildly-miffed fellow. It’s been really fun making these cats. #pottery

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Peeking kitty is finished #pottery

This is insane www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Oblong dish finished. #pottery

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Also: NO TRAITORS NO PATHOLOGICAL LIARS NO CONVICTED FELONS NO ADJUDICATED RAPISTS NO PEDOPHILES NO RUSSIAN ASSETS NO ORANGE ATROCITIES NO EPSTEIN/MUSK BUDDIES NO PUTIN PUPPETS NO MAKEUP-WEARING MAN-BABIES NO BLOWHARDS WITH ZERO SELF-AWARENESS BRONZED BRAGGARTS and NO ARROGANT A-HOLES

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

It’s Ballroom Bribes Thursday. Amongst others, $25m each from Apple and Nvidia. $10M each from Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Rocket Mortgage. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A haunted house where every room has several men trying to explain to you something you already know in excruciating and erroneous detail.

a project the tech companies seem to have, intentionally or not, is to basically ruin phone calls as a method of communication. too direct to actually be able to speak to another human being, not enough opportunity for them to insert themselves in the middle

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Annual PSA: If you have a dog and you pick up its poop in a bag, take the bag with you to dispose. MAGICAL POOP BAG FAIRIES DO NOT EXIST.

Suspicious kitty is done. #pottery

Another #pottery #wip. A baking tray with a sgraffito design.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Second test piece of organic ceramic form plus string. It’s been fun experimenting with different combinations. #pottery #wip

Spotted on Facebook: sicko game worlds colliding

i spent my thursday night sculpting 20 creatures so they could sing @themountaingoats.bsky.social. is that okay with everyone

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

Oblong bowl progress, greenware underglazed #pottery #wip

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

Underglazed and bisque fired. Sanding and final glazing next. #wip #pottery

Sen's Fortress - Dark Souls (2011)

Working on an experimental large vessel inspired by some midcentury pottery designs while I wait for other pieces to come out of the kiln. Doing this one in stoneware instead of porcelain so I don’t have to be as careful with the drying process. #wip #pottery

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

The entertainment industry has hit rock bottom. Nothing remains of a semblance of gratitude, or even retaining competent people and a team's experience. There is only short-term savings, while these companies are making massive profits. No wonder they're all crazy about AI.

If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

Sculptor Alicia Ponzio is fundraising to install a sculpture in SF Chinatown of the first birthright citizen of the US, Wong Kim Ark, who won this right under the 14th Amendment in 1898. Donate 150+ and she will also send you a handmade hardwood sculpting tool. www.gofundme.com/f/bronze-bus...

Another kitten in progress, this one based on a drawing my kid made #wip #pottery

Suspicious kitty #wip #pottery

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Highly recommend the tour at Eames Institute if you are in the Bay Area. Loved how it finished with a “chair tasting” room. Looking forward to their museum opening in north bay in a few years.

Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

The United Nations warns the world is very close to crossing a dangerous climate change threshold in a new report.